Differentiation from the market mean of unlimited cloud-based storage is the new calculus for its niche.
and even health tech that organizes patient information for hospitals f
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And Thermometer Lets Doctors Check Your Vitals From The Cloud We are getting that much closer to building the doctor office of the future right within our homes today.
and have a doctor access them via the cloud. These digital devices can track things like your temperature
The physician can then give a diagnosis without patients having to leave their homes. he stethoscope
and thermometer are the two most important tools we have in medicine for diagnosing common conditions,
if a cough is just a cold or something more serious, like pneumonia or asthma.
in order to make it easier for people to find out what wrong without having to go to a doctor office to figure that out.
According to Debt. org, the average 15-minute doctor-office visit cost patients an average of $69 in 2011.
Even with insurance and copays to help with costs, hauling yourself to the doctor is the last thing most people want to do when sick.
Lin says. e fit in as part of that first step into telemedicine. Like Scanadu devices, the Clinicloud medical kit hooks information from the app up with remote physicians.
Clinicloud has set up a special partnership with Doctors On Demand to do this for now, but could expand to include other telemedicine services in the future.
The other thing to keep in mind about the kit is the price. The technology offers convenience
but it not cheap. Customers can pre-order the Clinicloud stethoscope and thermometer kit for $109,
and Boston Children Hospital wants to make it easier for educators therapists and parents to collaborate so kids get the help they need.
and Dr. Howard Shane who leads the Autism Language Program and the Center for Communication Enhancement at Boston Children Hospital.
After graduating from university with a degree in computer science Izak created an ipad app that was inspired by his younger brother Oriel who has autism.
and store lesson plans schedules and other educational materials and track a student behavior and progress so it can be shared with other teachers therapists and parents.
and makes it simpler for educators to coordinate with therapists and support staff. veryone has diverse and unique needs
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
or developmental disabilities especially since only 15 states met the U s. Department of education basic standards for special needs education last year. t really a massive opportunity to help students with unique and diverse needs
You can even share your toothbrushing data with your dentist or hygienist and an Oral B spokesperson told me me at an event at Mobile World Congress last week,
Turning iphones Into Medical Diagnostic Devices Medical research is plagued by small sample sizes and inconsistent data collection.
a new ios software framework that lets people volunteer to join medical research studies. Researchkit lets people take tests like saying hhhto detect vocal variations, walking in a line,
or tapping in rhythm to test for Parkinson Disease. Users will decide how to share their data
They help people participate in tests for Parkinson, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and breast cancer. Apple Jeff Williams came out on stage today at the Apple Watch event to show off Researchkit.
Apple learned about some of the biggest obstacles to scientific research in medicine. Finding and recruiting subjects can be tough.
With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,
The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.
And the microphone can notice minute fluctuations in someone voice that may indicate Parkinson or another health problem.
they can talk to their doctor about it. Since medical data is obviously sensitive, Apple won see anything you put into Researchkit apps
and you can give permissions for how data is used by researchers. The question will be how many developers jump aboard the Researchkit.
it could make mass medical research easier than ever r
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how to boost the operational efficiency of hospitals and improve patient care by helping staff make better choices about how resources are allocated.
Its founders liken their product to an ir traffic controller for the hospital and healthcare system Their real-time analytics platform predicts changes in demand
to external factors gleaned by scraping public data such as weather info, disease seasonality and even local events
And while Analyticsmd does offer its own real-time dashboard view too its added layer of data processing helps hospitals achieve greater operational efficiencies by providing a nudge ahead of time.
and let the hospital know; second: find the root causes, we actually filed some IP on that,
to prevent this you need to call a doctor in one hour earlier, or you need to open that bed.
Or even to detect which patients may not have had the best service in the hospital. The team claims one early implementation of its platform was able to cut the number of patient falls in half over a 1. 5 month period,
how long it takes a nurse to respond, what the patient was asking for, how much they were moving around in their bed and so on. istorically we detected patterns to patients that had fallen
So, for instance, a nurse just arriving for a day shift will be automatically in the loop about any ongoing issues from the night before
and that happen to them in hospital are now being processed, and how certain actions might trigger certain healthcare outcomes?
In its current rollouts Garg says is only utilizing data elements that hospitals were already capturing,
They probably just see the hospital as being a lot more responsive. Without necessarily seeing the tech explicitly,
if a hospital started asking for additional decisions that maybe required additional data elements to be captured then the team would efinitely want to have a conversation with the patients to make sure they are comfortable with that Newhouse also points out that Analyticsmd makes a point of not capturing personal data such as patientsnames
while working in hospitals on operational issues where they saw how day to day operational challenges
picking out new diseases as theye coming to the area so we can start helping different systems
companies like Matternet are creating drones that will deliver medicine. Then there are drones that will deliver life vests to drowning victims,
and also to reproduce the functional and biochemical signals of diseases especially rare ones and those that make taking muscle biopsies difficult.
Interestingly there is no mention here of using these tiny bits of working muscle muscle that twitches in response to electricity
and it looks like it will be a real boon for researchers trying to figure out the effects of various diseases and drugs on the body.
#The 3d printed Peek Camera Helps Diagnose Eye disease In Developing Areas The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is based a smartphone system for diagnosing eye problems.
It uses a 3d printed add-on that can allow ophthalmologists to give detailed and complete eye exams in the field using an app and a small camera overlay.
Created by British ophthalmologists, the system recently hit £130, 475 on Indiegogo and is now up for pre-order by doctors.
The Peek can view the retina using a smart phones high-quality camera, see cataracts, and offer visual acuity tests as well as color
and contrast tests. The project is led by Dr. Andrew Bastawrous and Stewart Jordan and was designed by Kate Tarling and Dr Mario Giardini.
In a TED Talk, Dr. Bastawrous described his research into helping developing areas receive better eye care including the restoration of sight through cataract removal and prescription lenses.
Medical images taken by Peek can be sent to doctors remotely to diagnose and suggest treatments for patients.
The creators note that 80 percent of blindness worldwide is preventable but the tools necessary to address eye problems in the field are heavy, clumsy,
ophthalmologists are able to address eye care problems anywhere in the world. Interestingly, the system also allows you to give eye tests by showing increasingly smaller letters and figures on the screen.
It also addresses color blindness through similar means. This is obviously not for consumers, but it will enable doctors
and trained personnel to give real and usable eye tests in the field. By bringing the tools of an ophthalmology office into your pocket
and offering a very simple and inexpensive way to take great pictures inside the eye doctors can visit locations in need
but also includes data on medical conditions that a user can pre-populate into the app.
Thus, if you have a medical emergency and press the button, it will automatically send potential allergies
and blood type info to first responders to help them properly handle your conditions. This data is compatible with all U s. dispatch centers
#Nanometer-Sized Robots Can Now Take Colon Biopsies Researchers have invented a noninvasive way for thousands of nanometer sized robots to perform tissue biopsies.
then be extracted by a doctor. These tiny devices are made of materials that react to things like temperature, ph level,
Eventually, the team will work on creating versions that can perform biopsies in the brain bloodstream, and even more locations throughout the body
#Bringing Eye Exams To The Palm Of A Doctor Hand, Smart Vision Raises $6. 1 Million Commercializing a new tool to bring the basic eye exam into the palm of a doctor hand
Ds doctors of optometry, and doctors get to put something in the palm of their hand that used to be a 40 pound machine,
says Newman. own the road, the number of applications for this technology is much bigger. r
however, with a health-focused wristband that provides constant patient information for participants in medical studies and clinical field trials.
and the dedicated medical wearable unveiled today also monitors and reports information continuously, for better delivery of real-time actionable info to researchers and medical professionals.
Testing for the medical band begins this summer, according to Google, and it going to pursue regulatory approval for its use in medical contexts in partnership with academic institutions and drug companies, per Bloomberg.
This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.
The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,
which allows studies to use iphones and ipads to gather participant data from a wider potential user pool, for instance o
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#Opternative Online Eye Exam Gets You A Glasses Prescription From Home The annoyance of going to the doctor keeps tons of people from finding out
it could earn a fortune undercutting standard $50 to $100 ophthalmologist visits and making the world see clearer.
Opternative Test Photolee tells me the trials were wild successand that regulators have deemed Opternative online test tatistically equivalent to the refractive exams done in the doctor office.
and if you have any eye conditions. You calibrate your screen by measuring a credit card and sync your phone as a remote control for your computer over Wi-fi and an SMS confirmation.
if it an X or an O. Being at a doctor office, you feel a sense of confidence that the results will be right
However, Opternative can detect eye-based medical conditions, so youl still need to visit a doctor every few years to check for those.
Screen Shot 2015-07-27 at 2. 13.15 PM Vision For The Future Until now the only ways to get eye exams were the doctor office,
house calls with specialty equipment, or expensive smartphone dongles like one made by Smart Vision Labs. Eyenetra is working on a VR headset-based test,
Google researchers created the software through a kind of digital brain surgery, plugging together two neural networks developed separately for different tasks.
The world wants mobile medical apps (MMAS) ##and demand won t slow down any time soon. The demand for remote patient monitoring is growing dramatically says Jeannette Tighe from the Healthtech Advisory practice at Sagentia a global technology advisory
the world s aging population with its increasing need for medical care. In the United states alone Tighe notes almost 20 percent of Americans will be older than 65 by 2030 making them more vulnerable to Alzheimer s cardiovascular disease and other age-associated conditions.
This changing landscape is creating an exciting opportunity for the emerging area of connected health
#Benefits to medical device manufacturers include cost savings through not having to develop a completely new device leveraging existing platforms
and released draft guidance proposing deregulation of medical data aggregation systems. This clarification she says significantly reduces the risks of these opportunities for medical technology companies.
Currently most FDA-regulated apps are either stand-alone or act as accessories to existing medical devices and allow the smartphone to act as a##dumb-user interface
or a##data pipe to the cloud Pettigrew adds. However with the clearer regulatory pathway emerging concepts are now starting to push the boundaries
This device is aimed at treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases. It consists of an implantable microregulator a wireless charger and the ipad prescription-pad application.
Addressing Two Critical Questionssagentia believes there are two critical questions for medical device companies entering this space:
and incorporate it into a medical device? And equally important how do you make money from doing so?
MMAS should be treated like any other medical device. Risk analysis is key and careful system design will ensure that safety critical functions are implemented appropriately.
Once companies decide to incorporate an MMA they follow the same type of development roadmap used for any other medical device.
development under the ISO 13485 medical device standard.####As an example of how to manage the risks of including apps in connected systems Tighe cites the Verihaler which Sagentia has developed to monitor patient adherence to treatment for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.
Verihaler uses wireless acoustic monitoring to provide valuable feedback to users physicians or other health-care providers promoting correct inhaler use
With such great opportunities available it s no surprise that many medical device companies have connected health on their agendas.
The world wants mobile medical apps (MMAS) ##and demand won t slow down any time soon. The demand for remote patient monitoring is growing dramatically says Jeannette Tighe from the Healthtech Advisory practice at Sagentia a global technology advisory
the world s aging population with its increasing need for medical care. In the United states alone Tighe notes almost 20 percent of Americans will be older than 65 by 2030 making them more vulnerable to Alzheimer s cardiovascular disease and other age-associated conditions.
This changing landscape is creating an exciting opportunity for the emerging area of connected health
#Benefits to medical device manufacturers include cost savings through not having to develop a completely new device leveraging existing platforms
and released draft guidance proposing deregulation of medical data aggregation systems. This clarification she says significantly reduces the risks of these opportunities for medical technology companies.
Currently most FDA-regulated apps are either stand-alone or act as accessories to existing medical devices and allow the smartphone to act as a##dumb-user interface
or a##data pipe to the cloud Pettigrew adds. However with the clearer regulatory pathway emerging concepts are now starting to push the boundaries
This device is aimed at treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases. It consists of an implantable microregulator a wireless charger and the ipad prescription-pad application.
Addressing Two Critical Questionssagentia believes there are two critical questions for medical device companies entering this space:
and incorporate it into a medical device? And equally important how do you make money from doing so?
MMAS should be treated like any other medical device. Risk analysis is key and careful system design will ensure that safety critical functions are implemented appropriately.
Once companies decide to incorporate an MMA they follow the same type of development roadmap used for any other medical device.
development under the ISO 13485 medical device standard.####As an example of how to manage the risks of including apps in connected systems Tighe cites the Verihaler which Sagentia has developed to monitor patient adherence to treatment for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.
Verihaler uses wireless acoustic monitoring to provide valuable feedback to users physicians or other health-care providers promoting correct inhaler use
With such great opportunities available it s no surprise that many medical device companies have connected health on their agendas.
Of course, a diagnosis is far from a cure, and a call to improve educational opportunities is far too facileho could argue with that?
a world in which technology erases disability and in which the synthetic and biological worlds meld seamlessly.
shortly after returning home from the hospital he set up a workshop in the garage and put those skills to work designing
and by lowering the energy costs of walking reduce joint stress and fatigue. But bringing bionic devices into the clinic is not easy.
Bob Emerson a prosthetist at A Step Ahead Prosthetics who helps connect patients to research projects in Herr's group says it's challenging to persuade insurers to pay for devices like Biom.
Now he is going a step further collaborating with surgeons and other researchers on ways to allow bionic limbs to be controlled directly by the nervous system
Whereas brain-machine interfaces would require invasive surgery for brain implants he wants to connect electronic devices to the peripheral nerves at the site of the injury allowing people to control bionic limbs with their existing nerves
Amputation which is currently a fairly crude surgery might become a sophisticated procedure of setting up the body to interface with a bionic limb.
Indeed as artificial limbs become more powerful and functional they can sometimes be perceived as the opposite of a disability.
what her genes said about her chance of developing Alzheimer and heart disease. The report only delved into her genetic genealogy, possible relatives,
they are loading their DNA data into several little-known websites like Promethease that have become, by default, the largest purveyors of consumer genetic health services in the United Statesnd the next possible targets for nervous
a way to get xhaustive medical infoin reports that are imilar, but not as pretty.
its medical meaning is less certain. Consumer DNA tests determine which common versions of the 23,000 human genes make up your individual genotype.
As science links these variants to disease risk, the idea has been that genotypes could predict your chance of getting cancer or heart disease
you might well wish for a doctor at your side when you find out. don believe that this kind of risk assessment is mature enough to be a consumer product yet,
In barring 23andme health reports, the FDA also cited the danger that erroneous interpretations of gene data could lead someone to seek out unnecessary surgery
whether consumers should have the right to get genetic facts without going through a doctor. t an almost philosophical issue about how medicine is going to be delivered,
a professor at Stanford university who helped developed a DNA interpretation site called Interpretome as part of a class he teaches on genetics. s it going to be concentrated by medical associations,
Two of the sites appeared designed to steer users toward alternative medicine. Genetic Genie, a free service that carries ads for vitamins,
or lower, their risk for drug reactions, common diseases, or personality traits such as a lack of empathy.
Promethease makes little effort to combine the genetic risks for any one disease into a single comprehensible number.
That makes the report more like a jumble of facts than a diagnosis. Lennon says this is intentional.
if I had a high risk or genetic predisposition toward heart disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer. I don,
At least that the current view of the FDA and medical societies. But Deboe did take the report to her doctor.
It said she had a gene for caffeine sensitivity, and Deboe says her doctor agreed she should stick to decaf
and avoid drugs like Novocain. think that how people should be using thiss a conversation-starter with medical professionals,
she says. Under the Radar To Lennon and Cariaso the surge of interest in Promethease and SNPEDIA represents a triumph for a no-frills approach to genetics.
adding a link to a New yorker article that discussed the gene and its role in a rare childhood disease.
maintained by Konrad Karczewski, a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, now has 80 to 100 visitors per day, twice as many as last year.
You can find them in cars airplanes robots and medical implants. But their use has been limited in aircraft
and Increase targeted tree plantings in neighborhoods with high asthma rates. Over four months 1436 respondents contributed over 30000 responses and 464 new ideas to the survey.
Ultimately the carbon dioxide would probably get shipped to an offshore well for injection which is the method available in Norway.
#Nobel for Brain s Location Code The Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three researchers who made key discoveries about how the brain represents an animal s position in space orienting it
In July DARPA gave out $40 million in awards to try to develop brain implants that would help brain-injured soldiers recover lost memories
and making sure the genes are stable says Dean Price a professor of medicine biology and environment at Australian National University.
A sequencer this small might one day let police read off a genome from a spot of blood at a crime scene or permit doctors to pinpoint viruses in the midst of an epidemic.
to labs interested in sequencing hundreds of thousands of human genomes for medical research h
#Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let soldiers carry heavy backpacks over long distances or help stroke victims walk more steadily.
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There is no cure. The disease is caused by malformed proteins produced in the liver so one treatment is a liver transplant.
But few patients can get one and it only slows the disease down. Now after years of false starts and disappointment it looks like an audacious idea for helping these patients finally could work.
In 1998 researchers at the Carnegie Institution and the University of Massachusetts made a surprising discovery about how cells regulate
because it suggested a way to shut down the production of any protein in the body including those connected with diseases that couldn't be touched with ordinary drugs.
fight diseases like FAP by using RNAI to eliminate bad proteins (see The Prize of RNAI and Prescription RNA.
At one point the idea of RNAI therapy was on the verge of being discredited. But now Alnylam is testing a drug to treat FAP in advanced human trials.
Alnylam has more than 11 drugs including ones for hemophilia Hepatitis b and even high cholesterol in its development pipeline and has three in human trials progress that led the pharmaceutical company Sanofi to make a $700 million investment in the company last winter.
Its founders among them the Nobel laureate and MIT biologist Philip Sharp had solved one of the biggest challenges facing the idea of RNAI therapies.
The company tried a shortcut of injecting chemically modified RNA directly into diseased tissue for example into the retina to treat eye diseases.
and requires frequent visits to the hospital for hour-long IV infusions something patients desperate to stay alive will put up with but likely not millions of people with high cholesterol.
This approach allows for the drug to be administered with a simple injection that patients could give themselves at home.
The combination of low cost and ease-of-use is allowing Alnylam to go after more common diseases not just the rare ones that patients will go to great lengths to treat.
Because we ve made incredible improvements in the delivery strategy Meyers says we can now go after big diseases where we can treat millions of patients potentially.
he had been searching for the next great delivery mechanism one that could greatly expand the diseases that can be treated by RNAI.
Alnylam sees the potential for billions of dollars in revenue from liver-related diseases. Yet most diseases involve other tissues in the body.
Dahlman and his colleagues at MIT are some of the leaders in the next generation of RNAI delivery targeting delivery to places throughout the body.
which are associated with a wide variety of diseases. The studies showed that the method could be used to reduce tumor growth in lung cancer for example.
Treating cancer is one area where RNAI s particular advantages are expected to shine. Conventional chemotherapy affects more than just the target cancer cells it also hurts healthy tissue
which is why it makes people feel miserable. But RNAI can be extremely precise potentially shutting down only proteins found in cancer cells.
which could make cancer treatments far more effective. Lab work like this is far from fruition but if it maintains its momentum the drugs currently in clinical trials could represent just a small portion of the benefits of the discovery of RNAI i
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